SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME DAY 1 - SATURDAY, 26TH SEPTEMBER 2015 Chairs: Nguyen Anh Tri, Vip Viprakasit 08:30 – 08:55 - Overview of Transfusion Dependent Thalassaemia management (TDT) - Chi Kong Li 08.30 - 10.00
Symposium 1: Treatment updates
08:55 – 09:20 - Overview of Non-Transfusion Dependent Thalassaemia management (NTDT) - Anuja Premawardhena 09:20 – 09:45 - Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) current progress - Suradej Hongeng 09:45 – 10:00 - Panel Discussion
10.00 - 10.30
Coffee Satellite: Blood safety Symposium
Chairs: Erica Wood/ Aparna Singh Shah 10:30 – 10:55 - Blood adequacy and safety – Challenges in the Asian Region - Aparna Singh Shah 10:55 – 11:15 - Blood adequacy, safety and recruitment: the Vietnam model – Ngo Manh Quan 11:15 – 11:40 - Blood safety international standards-the Australian Model – Erica Wood
10.30 - 12.30
11:40 – 12:05 - Blood transfusion in Thalassaemia – Cheuk Kwong Lee 12:05 – 12:30 - Mitigating infectious risks in transfusion practice – Yesim Aydinok 12.30 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 - 15.00
Free oral presentations
Chairs: Bach Quoc Khanh/tbc Presentations selected from submitted abstracts (the rest accepted as posters)
15.00 - 15.30
Coffee Chairs: Androulla Eleftheriou/Suthat Fucharoen (9 Country report presentations): 15:30 – 15:39 - Sri Lanka – Anuja Premawardhena 15:39 – 15:48 - Malaysia - Mohamed Ibrahim Hishamshah 15:48 – 15:57 - India – Roshan Colah
15.30 - 17.00
Country reports
15:57 – 16:06 - Indonesia - Pustika Amalia Wahidiyat 16:06 – 16:15 - Philippines – Maria Liza Naranjo 16:15 – 16:24 - Bangladesh – Mahmood Chowdhury (Arzu) 16:24 – 16:33 - Vietnam - Nguyen Anh Tri 16:33 – 16:42 - Myanmar – Sein Win 16:42 – 16:51 - People’s Republic of China – Chen Ping 16:51 – 17:00 - Panel Discussion Chair : Nguyen Anh Tri 17:00 – 17:05 - Welcome and introduction – Nguyen Anh Tri
17.00 – 18.00
Novartis Oncology Satellite Symposium
17:05 – 17:30 - Optimal Management of iron overload: targeting the liver, heart and beyond – Vip Viprakasit 17:30 – 17:55 - Establishing a comprehensive thalassaemia care programme: successes and challenges – Ibrahim Mohamed Hishamshah 17:55 – 18:00 - Questions and Answers Chairs: Panos Englezos/ Nguyen Anh Tri TIF – Panos Englezos NIHBT/ViTA – Nguyen Anh Tri Ministry of Health of Vietnam - tbc
18.00 - 20.00
Opening ceremony
ASEAN – Fernando M. Ferdinal Keynote 1. Haemoglobin Disorders: The global picture Androulla Eleftheriou Keynote 2. Gene Therapy – Philippe Leboulch Traditional Music Show – 20 minutes
DAY 2 - SUNDAY, 27TH SEPTEMBER 2015
Chair: John Porter/Vip Viprakasit 08:30 – 08:55 - Iron metabolism and iron load in Haemoglobin disorders – Vip Viprakasit 08.30 - 10.00
Symposium 3: Iron
08:55 – 09:20 - Iron chelation in TDT – John Porter 09:20 – 09:45 - Iron chelation in NTDT – Ibrahim Mohamed Hishamshah 09:45 – 10:00 - Panel discussion
10.00 - 10.30
Coffee Chair: Shau Yin Ha/ Dimitrios Kountouras 10:30 – 10:55 - Liver Disease: Viral Hepatitis: Treat or Cure – Dimitrios Kountouras
10.30 - 12.30
Symposium 4: Common complications – disease and treatment related
10:55 – 11:20 - Heart Complications – Athanassios Aessopos 11:20 – 11:45 - Endocrine complications – Shau Yin Ha 11:45 – 12:10 - Infections – Suthat Fucharoen 12:10 – 12:30 - Silent cerebral ischaemia in TDT-patients – Mehran Karimi
12.30 - 14.00
Lunch Chairs: Bach Quoc Khanh/Philippe Leboulch 14:00 – 14:20 - Safety and Efficacy of Oral Therapy with Grazoprevir and Elbasvir for Chronic Hepatitis C – Paul Kwo 14:20 – 14:40 - MRI Technologies for Measurement of Tissue Iron Concentrations – Tim St Pierre
14.00 - 15.45
Symposium 5: New Advances
14:40 – 15:00 - MRI – The Thai experience – Pairash Saiviroonporn 15:00 – 15:20 - Novel Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents In Thalassemia – John Porter 15:20 – 15:40 - Gene Therapy: tbc 15:40 – 15:45 - Panel Discussion
15.45 - 16.15
Coffee
Chairs: Roshan Colah/ Michael Angastiniotis 16:15 – 16:35 - Screening and Counselling – Roshan Colah 16.15 - 17.30
Symposium 6: Prevention
16:35 – 16:55 - Obstetric approaches – Chanane Wanapirak 16:55 – 17:15 - PGD – Wirawit Piyamongkol 17:15 – 17:30 – Panel Discussion Chairs: Michael Angastiniotis/ Androulla Eleftheriou 17:30 – 17:50 - Epidemiology studies of the thalassaemia syndromes in Asia – Fred Piel
17.30 - 18.50
Symposium 7: Public health issues
17:50 – 18:10 - Health technology assessment - Ying Yao Chen 18:10 – 18:30 - Generic or Substandard Drugs – Mahmood Hadipour Dehshal 18:30 – 18:50 – Panel Discussion Panos Englezos, Nguyen Anh Tri, John B. Porter, Androulla Eleftheriou and Suthat Fucharoen
18.50 – 19.15
Closing remarks and Way forward “Signing of a Joint Declaration”